DISGRACE ABOUNDING

some of these Catholics wanted nothing better than to fawn again
before a Catholic Emperor.

But now Austria was gone, and the Kaiser could never come
back to Vienna, and where Austria had been was Germany,
What now?, thought the Serbs, as they contemplated the Croats.

Here is the distant cloud. About the time that young King
Peter was driving over the bridge a German map-maker, one Dn
Friedrich Lange, was publishing, with official National Socialist
patronage, a new map of 'Middle Europe*. It now hangs in all
German schools, universities and barracks. Red islands, of
German-speaking inhabitants for whom the right of self-determin-
ation might be claimed one day, are spattered over Croatia and
Slovenia, Zagreb is given its old German name of Agram, and the
accompanying text remarks that *Serbs and Croats are regarded
by many people, in spite of their common literary language, as
distinct races'*

After Munich, a German-Italian award at Vienna gave a large
slice of Czechoslovakia to Hungary, a country that long pro-
claimed its territorial claims against Rumania —and Yugoslavia.
About that time Milan Stoyadinovitch, electioneering in the coun-
tryside, declared, in allusion to this development, that Yugoslavia
'would never yield a foot of territory*. In respect of Hungary Yugo-
slavia can with ease make good that statement. But Germany?

I am convinced that the Reich will one day advance to the
Adriatic. Nobody who has not been there can understand
the pull that the call of the sea exercises on a nation that feels
itself so strong, the magnetic attraction of the thought that there,
only a few ijiiles away, are great new harbours for your mercantile
marine, new bases for your warships, so that they can reach the
Mediterranean in a quick spring, without having to steam all
round the coasts of Europe.

So this cloud, of the suppressed but unsettled dispute with the
Croats and of the pressure from the mighty Reich in the north,
hangs in the distance over the blue sky of peaceful and thriving
Yugoslavia.

This domestic quarrel is a sad thing for those who love, and

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